Haruki Murakami Quotes

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart.

Haruki Murakami

• My Heart
• I Remember
• Shadows
• Short Story
• Guideposts

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• Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Intelligent
  • Loyalty

• It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Bad
  • Age
  • Care

• Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Helping
  • Communication
  • Gossip

• None but blockheads copy each other.

  

  William Blake
  • Copy
  • Blockheads

• What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

  

  John Milton
  • Eternal
  • Providence
  • Assert

• There is no fashion for the old.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Fashion
  • Old

• Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • Records

• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Vision
  • Darkness
  • Shadows

• I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

  

  Peter Wright
  • Painting
  • Discovered
  • Subjects

• My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • My Heart
  • I Remember
  • Shadows